Wire-hat-frame-forming device.



No. 830,218. PATENTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

- L. FRIEDBNBERG.

WIRE HAT FRAME FORMING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.B.1906.

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PATBNTED SEPT. 4, 1906.

L. FRIEDENBBRG. WIRE HAT FRAME FORMING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.B.1905.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS FRIEDENBERG, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ABRAHAM VELLEMAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WIRE-HAT-FRAME-FORIVIING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 4, 1906.

Application filed March 8, I905. Serial No. 248,961.

To all whom, it WLCI/Z/ concern.-

Be it known that I, LoUrs FRIEDENBERG, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in l/Vire-Hat-Frame- Forming Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for forming wire hat-frames for ladies hats; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class by means of which both the crown and rim of a wire hat-frame may be given any desired shape in vertical section and may also be made of any desired dimensions and with this and other obj ects'in view the invention consistsin a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure l is a plan View of my improved device for making wire hat-frames; Fig. 2, a partial sectional side view thereof; Fig. 3, a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a section on the line 4 I of Fig. 3; Fig. 5, a perspective View of a spring-washer which I employ; and Fig. 6, a perspective view of a wire hatframe which may be made on my improved wire-hat-framefor1ning device with the parts thereof in the position shown in Fig. 2, the frame shown in Fig. 6 being on a reduced scale.

In the practice of my invention I provide a base a, having an upright standard (1 provided with a socket a and on the base a is mounted arotatable head I), which is preferably circular in form and provided with a shank 6 which passes downwardly into the socket a and said shank is provided with an annular groove [2 and passed through the side of the standard a is a screw 6*, which is adapted to enter the groove b and prevent the removal of the head I) from the standard a and in practice I also prefer to place between the head 6 and the standard a ballbearings b The head-b is provided in the top surface thereof with radial recesses b, eight of which are employed in. the form of construction shown, and in each of these radial recesses is mounted a radially-movable arm 0. Mounted on the top of the head I) and covering the inner end of the arms 0 is a cap d, having a central depending member (Z provided with a screw-threaded socket d, which receives the end of a screw (Z passed upwardly through the shank b of the head I), and by means of this construction the cap (Z may be turned on the head I).

The cap (Z is provided with a plurality of slots (Z which are also eight in number and which are curved, as shown in Fig. 1, and each of the arms 0 is provided with a pin 0 and these pins pass through the slots d and by turning the cap (Z in one direction the arms 0 will be projected, and when said cap is turned in the opposite direction the said arms will be drawn into the head I).

Mounted on the outer ends of each of the arms 0 is a supplemental arm 6, and the supplemental arms e are provided w1th circular jaws e and the arms 0 with corresponding tongues 0 which fit between the jaws c and bolts f are passed through said parts, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and by means of this construction the supplemental arms 6 are rotatably connected with the arms 0 and are free to swing in a horizontal plane. In

'the construction shown the supplemental arms 6 are of less transverse thickness than the arms 0, and said supplemental arms are provided in one side thereof with a longitudinal recess a, and said supplemental arms are also provided with a horizontal longitudinal slot or opening 6, through which pass bolts e and a, each of which is provided with a rectangular nut 6 and these nuts fit in the recesses 6 as clearly shown in the drawings.

Mounted on the inner bolt 6 of each of the supplemental arms a in the form of construction shown are three upright arms g, 9 and g and these arms are each provided with a longitudinal slot 9*. The arms g, g", and g are on the side of the supplemental arm e opposite the nut e on said bolt, and between each of said arms where the bolt 6 passes therethrough is placed a curved springwasher 9 the opposite parallel ends of which are provided with lugs or projections g. The washers g are convex in cross-section, and the convex sides thereof are placed ad jacent to the supplemental arm e, and one of the arms g7, g and g are placed on the opposite side of each washer and fits between the lugs or projections 9. Each of the bolts 6 is provided with a washer h and with a head m, which bears thereon, and the head end of said bolt, as shown at 71/3 in Fig. 2, is angular in cross-section, so that a wrench or key may be applied thereto, and in this'way the said bolt may be tightened on the arms 9, g and 9 so as to hold them'in any desired position, and

said arms may be turned on said bolt when ever necessary.

The bolt 6 in the outer end of each of the supplemental arms is also provided with a plurality of upright arms i, "L and i similar in all respects to the arms g, 9 and g and each arm is provided with a longitudinal slot t and with a washer i similar to the washer g and provided at its opposite ends with lugs or projections i 1 The arms g, 9 and 9 which are mounted on the bolts 6 in the inner ends of the sup lemental arms e, are free to swing in radial and vertical planes, may be adjusted into any desired position vertically or radially, and said arms are designed to receive the crown-wires of a hat-frame and to shape said crown, and each of said arms is provided at the upper end and in the outer edge thereof with a notch or recess 9 while the arms i, 4, and 4, which are! similarly mounted, are also free to swing in vertical and radial planes, are also adjustable into any desired position vertically or radially and designed to receive the wires of the rim of the hat-frame and to shape said rim, and each of said arms is provided in its upper end and at the outer edge thereof with a notch or recess i In the operation of forming a wire frame for hats on my improved wire-frame-forming device, said frame being of the general form shown in Fig. 6, the arms g, g and g are adjusted into the positions shown in Fig. 2, and a wire is passed around the heads of the arms g, and this wire forms the bottom wire of the frame of the crown portion of the hat. Another wire is passed around the heads of the arms 9 while a third wire j is passed around the heads of the arms g and these wires in connection with the radial wires here inafter described form the frame -of the crown portion of the hat-frame. Informing the rim of the hat a wire j is passed around the arms "L or the heads thereof, while another wire y is passed around the heads of the arms i and a similar wire j is passed around the heads of the arms i Radiallyarranged wires 7c are then passed transversely across the crown portion of the hat-frame and wrapped around the wire 3' at k and then down and around the wire 7' at from which point the ends of the wires 7c are passed outwardly radially from the base portion of the crown of the frame and wrapped around the of the supplemental arms 6 wires j, P, and j at it Any desired num her of the radially-arranged wires it may be employed; but in practice the number of said radially-arranged wires employed is preferably equal to the number of arms 0 and supplemental arms e.

The style of the hat-frame shown in Fig. 6 is what is known as a turban, and in this form the intermediate crown-wires j and the second rim-wire are omitted; but it will be understood that the arms 9 and "L may or may not be employed in making a hat-frame on my improved wire-hat-frame-forming device and instead of winding the radially-arranged wires it around the circularly-arranged wires of the crown portion of the frame and of the rim portion of the frame, as shown at W, W, 16 and 76 or the said radiallyarranged wires 76 may be tied to the circularly-arranged wires of the crown and rim portion of the hat-frame in the well-known manner.

From the hereinbefore-described construction it will be seen that the arms 0 and e constitute,in effect, a single radially-adjustable arm, and the object of making these arms of two parts is to provide means whereby the length of the said radially-adjustable arm may be increased or decreased by employing longer or shorter supplemental members 6, and by placing the bolts 6 and e in the longitudinal slot or opening 6 it will be seen that separate sets of arms g, 9 and g and 'L, P, and i are radially adjustable in the supplemental arms e or radially adjusted in the arm composed of the separate parts 0 and e, and by making the supplemental arms 6 rotatable on the main arm 0, as herein shown and described, I also provide means whereby the supplemental arms may be adjusted in hori- Zontal planes, if desired, and thus accommodate the device to any particular arrangement of the radial wires of the frame.

It will be observed that the bolts e and i are the same in all respects 1n the form of construction shown, and the arms i, i and i are similar to the arms g, g", and 9 but my invention is not limited to any particular form ofeither sets of these arms nor to any particular means for adjusting the position of said arms, and various changes in and modifications of these features of the construction herein shown and described, as well as all that part ofthe adjusted as to give the rim of the hat any desired shape in cross-section and any pre ferred width, and these arms may be also so a djusted as to cause the rim of the hat-frame to project more at one point than at another. It will also be apparent that aframe including the crown and rim, if any rim be desired, may be formed on one set of vertically-arranged arms pivoted to the supplemental arms 6, and my invention is not limited to the employment of two sets of vertically-arranged arms in the said supplemental arms 6 nor to any particular number of arms in a set.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wire-hat-frame-forming device provided with radially-arranged arms composed of a plurality of detachably-connected parts, the outer parts being provided with two sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms which are pivoted thereto so as to swing in radial and vertical planes, substantially as shown and described.

2. A wirehat-frame-forming device provided udth radially-arranged arms composed of a plurality of detachably-connected parts, the outer parts being provided with two sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms which are pivoted thereto so as to swing in radial and vertical planes, the separate sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms being also radially adjustable, substantially as shown and described.

3. A wire-hat-frame-forming device provided with radially-arranged and radiallyadjustable arms composed of a plurality of detachably-connected parts, the outer parts of said arms being adapted to swing in a horizontal plane and being provided with vertically arranged and vertically adjustable arms which are pivoted thereto and adapted to swing in radial and vertical planes, substantially as shown and described.

4. A wire-hat-frameforming device provided with radially-arranged and radiallyadjustable arms composed of detachablyconnected parts, the outer parts of said arms being provided with two sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivoted thereto and adapted to swing in radial and vertical planes, each set of said arms being also radially adjustable on the outer members of the radially-arranged arms, substantially as shown and described.

5. A wire-hat-frame-forming device, comprising a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-arranged and radiallyad justable arms mounted in said head, supplemental arms detachably connected with the outer ends of said radially-arranged and radially-adjustable arms, means for adjusting the first-named arms radially, and verticallyarranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivotally connected with the supplemental arms and adapted to swing in radial and vertical planes, substantially as shown and described.

6. A wirehat-frameforming device, comprising a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-arranged and radially-adjustable arms mounted in said head, supplemental arms detachably connected with the outer ends of said radially-arranged and radially-adjustable arms, means for adjusting the first-named arms radially, and verticallyarranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivotally connected with the supplemental arms and adapted to swing in radial and vertical planes, the supplemental arms being also pivotally supported and adapted to swing in a horizontal plane, substantially as shown and described.

7. A wire-hatframeforming device, comprising a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-arranged and radiallyadjustable arms mounted in said head, supplemental arms detachably connected with the outer ends of said radially-arranged and radially-adjustable arms, means for adjusting the first-named arms radially, and verticallyarranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivotally connected with the supplemental arms and adapted to swing radially and vertically, said vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms being also radially adjustable on the supplemental arms, substantially as shown and described.

8. A wire-hat-frameforming device, comprising a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-arranged and radially-adjustable arms mounted in said head, supplemental arms detachably connected with the outer ends of the first-named arms, and two sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivoted to the supplemental arms so as to swing in vertical and radial planes each set of said vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms being also radially adjustable, substantially as shown and described.

9. In a wire-hat-frame-forming device, a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-adjustable arms mounted in said head, a cap mounted on said head, means for adjusting said arms radially by turning said cap, and vertically-arranged and verticallyadjustable arms pivoted to the outer end portions of the radiallyadjustable arms and adapted to swingin radial and vertical planes, substantially as shown and described.

1 0. A wire-hatframe-forming device, comprising a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-movable arms mounted in said head, a rotatable cap mounted on said head and on said arms, means whereby the turning of said cap will move said arms radially, said arms being also provided at their outer ends with detachable supplemental arms, and two sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivoted to said supplemental arms and. adapted to swing in radial and vertical planes, substantially as shown and described.

1 1. Awire-hat-frame-formingdevice, comprising a base, a rotatable head mounted thereon, radially-movable arms mounted in said head, a rotatable cap mounted on said head and on said arms, means whereby the turning of said cap will move said arms radially, said arms being-also provided at. their outer ends with. detachable supplemental arms adapted toswing in ahorizontalplane, and two sets of'vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms pivotally connected with said su plemental arms and adapted to swing in ra ial and vertical planes, said sets of vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms being independently and radially adjustable, substantially as shown and described.

12. A wire-hat-frame-formingdevice, provided with radially-arranged arms, and vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms connected withsaid radially-arranged arms, said vertically-arranged and verticallyadjustable arms being mounted on bolts and provided with curved spring-washers which en age said vertically-arranged. and vertical y-adjustable arms, said vertically-arranged and vertically-adjustable arms bein also adapted to swing in radial and vertioa planes and being held in any desired position by said washers, substantially as shown and described. 7

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I. have signed my name, in

presence of the subscribing witnesses, this 7t-hday of-March, 1905.

LOUIS FRIEDENBERG.

Witnesses:

F. A. STEWART, C. E. MULREANY. 

